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- Computer Culture in European Schools, Stockholm November 1998 Internet in School – new possibilities, new challenges Johan Groth <johan.groth@gogab.se> National Agency for Education
- Computers and Internet
- New ways to communicate
- New ways to exchange information
- Imply changes in how we live, learn and work
- Changes – Analog vs. digital information
- Easy to store and distribute information
- Easy to present information
- Easy to copy information, without loss of quality
- Easy to change format of information
- Easy to supply meta-information
- Changes – Computers vs. networks
- Share resources
- Share information
- Work together globally
- ” The network is the computer”
- Changes – Local vs. global
- Interests more important than ”closeness”
- Changes – Information consumer vs. producer
- Access all types of information with one tool
- Possible to create information in any format
- Cheap to create information in all formats
- Possible to reach a world wide audience
- Changes – Text only vs. multimedia
- Primacy of text is removed
- All formats equally easy to handle
- A return to ”pre-printing press times”
- Changes – Issues vs. concurrent publication
- Printed = permanent
- Possible to change with time
- Possible to change with user
- Possible to change with user’s needs
- How do these changes affect the educational sector?
- New ”doors” are opened
- Subjects change and merge
- No common teaching material
- New sources available, simple and cheap
- Processes rather than results
- Parallel changes (buildings, pedagogy etc.)
- IT in the Swedish educational system
- A rapid development of infrastructure
- Two thirds of all schools use Internet
- Nearly all high schools use Internet
- All universities use Internet
- Nearly all larger museums and libraries use Internet
- "Immaterial" or content driven approach to introducing IT
- State supports local initiatives through information etc.
- Builds on local development and priorities
- Dynamics and flexibility is included
- Strong coupling to other changes
- Swedish K12-schools is a good example
- Start with a pedagogical idea
- Nothing is technically impossible
- Spend resources on education, not hardware
- Specify function, not hardware
- Prepare for organisational and administrative changes
- IT supports communication and cooperation
- IT can improve teaching and learning
- “ I don’t know anything about computers” is no excuse
- But: a forest is an unrivalled multimedia production!
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